Tortoise Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Check out @MatthewdAncona's recommendations for the festive season: 📺 A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint 🎶 Dream of Christmas – @NorahJones 📚 The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter and more! https://t.co/fgAcaPqilr

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In this week’s Creative Sensemaker, @MatthewdAncona recommends… 🎭Jerusalem – @ApolloVictoria 📺Anatomy of a Scandal – @Netflix 🎬Operation Mincemeat 📖The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work – @Yascha_Mounk https://t.co/Z9d637fFc9

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.@AdamRutherford, author of ‘Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics’, will be joining us in our newsroom for a ThinkIn on Monday evening. Book your in-person or digital place now.

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It's almost 50 years since George Lucas cast sir Alec Guinness as Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. Now, played by Ewan McGregor, the character returns in this Disney+ series – reunited with Hayden Christensen as Kenobi's Sith nemesis: Darth Vader: https://t.co/GVbrY3Py86

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"Read the god-damn book because it is god-damn wonderful." James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' is 100 years old. Read @simonbarneswild's piece on why the modernist text is one for all and one for the ages. https://t.co/15P11CCJwj

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Looking for your cultural fix this weekend? In this week’s Creative Sensemaker, @MatthewdAncona recommends… 🎥The Lost King 📺The Elon Musk Show 🎵$oul $old $eparately – @FreddieGibbs 📖An Intimate History of Evolution – Alison Bashford https://t.co/g0V1QlWbX2

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"Read the god-damn book because it is god-damn wonderful." James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' is 100 years old. Read @simonbarneswild's piece on why the modernist text is one for all and one for the ages. https://t.co/15P11CCJwj

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Recommeded in this week's Creative Sensemaker: 🎥 'Emily' – Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut 🎼 'CHARLIE – @@charlieputh 📚 Faster than a Cannonball: 1995 And All That – Dylan Jones (@WhiteRabbitBks) And more: https://t.co/fHoRlRspcX

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On 22 November, @MariaRessa will be in the Tortoise newsroom live for a special ThinkIn. Book your place and hear the story of her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government.

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.@JonJAlex is the author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us. He’ll be discussing the question “Does democracy work for you?” with James Harding, @MatthewdAncona, @ETemelkuran and Laura Osborne at @KITEFstvl this June. https://t.co/TdCJWADBk1